The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-04
A COLD WAVE.
Plenty Of Ice, but the Fruit All
Right.

Plenty of Ice, but the Fruit All
Right.
The cold wave predicted on Saturday
last came in full force on Saturday
night, when the thermometers about
town registered as low al 81 degrees.
while the Thermometer kept pretty low
the day was very pleasant. Sunday
night and yesterday morning it was
again very cold, the thermometer reggie
tering about the same as Saturday night.
Yesterday was slightly warmer than
Sunday, and the wind went from point
to point and came in gusts.
Many orange growers got out of bed
early Sunday morning, somewhat fright
ened as to the safety of their fruit, and q
good percentage of them forgot about
its being Sunday and put in the day
gathering and packing oranges. Others
resorted to the smoke method of keep
ing off frost, and large fires were built in
the groves.
Although the weather has been at a
freezing point for two nights. experience
ed growers, yesterday declared that the
fruit had not been seriously injured up
to that time, and were satisfied that if it
grew no colder the crop would not be
seriously Injured. There was ice in some
of the oranges that were pulled from the
trees in town, while fruit from other
yards seemed to be as good as ever. In
a. 20,
be injured.
The following telegram was received
here yesterday and was given free cir
culation
JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 1, 1871 p. m.
| Weather Observer here says tonight
and tomorrow night will be as cold as
last night, and probabilities are that
fruit on trees will be frozen. Give gen.
1 eral publicity to this information.
| M. r. MORAN.
The following special was also re
ceived from Sanford:
SANFORD, Jan. 3, 1887.
I Those who claim to know, say the or
anges are vet not injured. Early vege-
tables are. The thermometer indicated
% deg. Sunday and "a deg. to-day.
j. w. V.
The early vegetables in this section
were also injured, or totally destroyed.
The telegram of Mr.. NJ. r. Moran
caused general uneasiness, and while it
only stated that last night and tonight
will be as cold as were Saturday and
Sunday nights, many fear that the con-
tinued cold will do irreparable damage
to all the fruit on the trees.
r. Kersting. the druggist, who is
Palatka. wired the observer in jackson
Vile for an explanation of Mr.. Moran's
telegram, given above, which had crea-
ted quite a sensation here. The follow
| ing was received in answer:
| JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Jan. 3, 1886.
| To Rudolph KerstinR. Palatha:
/ Moran reported that tonight and to-
morrow would be rs cold as last night,
and that oranges would freeze, as COM
| ing from this Office. The statement re-
| garding the weather is correct, but We
make no prediction regarding the dam
age to fruit. SMITH, Observer.
As we go to press the thermometer
stands at SO deg and it is cold, with
little wind.
Mr.. B. l.. LilienthaI, of Paiatka
Heights, has examined his oranges thor
oughly, and says they have not been
hurt, although the thermometer regis
tered 30 deg. in his grove. Mr.. A. j..
Beach, of Rolleston, brings the same
cheering news from his section, and so
does Captain j. B. Cole, of East Palatka.
From San Mateo, Federal Point, Bridge
port, good news.also comes, all to the
effect that the oranges were not injured.
At these places the thermometer rang
ed from q to 30 deg. Captain Cable, of
the steamer Georgia, says that it was
% deg. at Drayton Island, and it was
the general opinion that the fruit had
not been hurt to any appreciab,e extent.